By Patric Hedlund

“This is 0 for 6,” an onlooker said this week, referring to another 500 foot dry hole drilled into the flood plain in Lake of the Woods. The ongoing quest to find a new source of water for the parched community placed a highly visible drilling rig between Lockwood Valley Road and…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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The 500 foot hole drilled by this rig found little water—but other plans move forward.

Left: LOWMWC board members listen to president Robert Stowell and Self-Help Enterprises consultant Dave Warner tell about an income survey for Lake of the Woods.

Eight members of the public, the 4-member board and LOWMWC employee Diane Gustafson were at the June 4 meeting.

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